Charlie StrossFeb 21, 2023

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...

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Show threadPhiala Sarah GosleeFeb 21, 2023
@cstross ChatGPT will write plausible computer code that often runs but may not give the correct answer. I have colleagues making students generate, debug, and explain that code.
Show threadGeoJoeK
@cstross @phiala Several of my colleagues and I use it to learn libraries that are poorly documented / help troubleshoot issues with our own code. While it may occasionally be inaccurate and not write the best code, it’s a whole lot less toxic than searching and asking stack exchange.
Feb 26, 2023 at 5:19amWeb